Fitness Fact Friday – “Food Additives”

Do you know what is in your food? Do you take the time to read the nutritional label? Learn how to here. You will be surprised as to how many “additives” are added to your food. Weightloss.org has put together a fun visual showing some of these chemical additives. We hope you enjoy it, and we hope you start to pay more attention to your nutritional labels.

Taste, texture, color, and freshness all play roles in the enjoyment of our food as well as in weight loss. These are the qualities that make eating a pursuit that goes well beyond simple nourishment. Our modern lifestyles have given rise to high food production, mouths to feed, and a greater demand for shelf-life. This, in turn, has given rise to food additives, which give us exactly what we want out of our food, but at what cost?